SCAPA SCUTTLINGS.
SOME ARTFUL DODGING
(Received 9 a.m.)
PARIS Dec. 18
The Germans tried many dodges when confronted at the meeting of Ministers and Ambassadors which replaced the Supreme Council. They produced figures halving the Allied experts' estimates of Germany's -shipping material. The Allies agreed to accept 200,000 tons of dock material as compensation for the Scapa sinkings, plus fifty thousand tons of new ships which the Germans undertook to construct within a limited period.
Germany offered half-built Dreadnoughts instead of cruisers and destroyers, claiming that the latter were necessary to police her shores.
M. Clemenceau drily replied: "Why haven't the Dreadnoughts already been broken up In accordance with the Treaty?"— Times.
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Northern Advocate, 22 December 1919, Page 5
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